Mars, not Earth, plays a role in "refreshing" some near-Earth asteroids, causing the space rocks to ...

The powerful Gaia space telescope designed to create a 3D map of stars in the Milky Way will also de...

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that discovered and characterised tens of thousands o...

Asteroids may have brought life to Earth as scientists claim their collisions with planets can boost...

Some 4,700 potentially hazardous asteroids with diameters larger than 100 meters are loitering in ou...

Planetary scientists have claimed that flinging pebbles at an asteroid could help deflect the Earth-...

Changes in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter some three to four billion years ago hurled a ...

WISE new observations indicate that there are at least 40 percent fewer near-Earth asteroids in tota...

Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and astero...